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Guido RENI (Bologna, 1575 - 1642 ) David and Goliath Canvas …
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Lot no. 6
Estimate: €2,000,000 - €4,000,000
Sale date : 11/25/2025 at 4:00 PM
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Guido RENI (Bologna, 1575 - 1642 ) David and Goliath Canvas David and Goliath, canvas, by G. Reni 89 ½ x 57 ¼ in. 227 x 145.5 cm Provenance: acquired from the artist in Bologna by Francesco I d'Este, Duke of Modena and Reggio (1610-1658), through Cornelio Malvasia, in January 1633 ; Collection of Prince Eugène, Duke of Savoy (1663-1736), in his residence on the Upper Belvedere in Vienna, listed in the inventory of this collection in 1736 (the collection was subsequently purchased en bloc by Charles-Emmanuel III of Savoy in 1741 and transferred to Turin); Charles-Emmanuel III of Savoy Collection, Duke of Savoy and Prince of Piedmont, at the Palazzo Reale in Turin; Brought back from Italy by General Dupont de l'Etang (1765-1840), appointed "provisional extraordinary minister of the French government in Piedmont" from June to mid-August 1800; Collection of General Pierre-Antoine Dupont de l'Etang, probably housed in the Hôtel de Beauvau in Paris until 1850, when the Hôtel Beauvau was sold; Then kept by his family until today; Private collection, France Bibliography: Charles-Nicolas Cochin, Voyage d'Italie, ou Recueil de Notes Sur les Ouvrages de Peinture & de Sculpture, qu'on voit dans les principales villes d'Italie, Paris, 1758, vol. I, p. 9: "Un David du Guide, fort beau". Jérôme de La Lande, Voyage en Italie..., Genève 1786, vol. I, p. 81 (ed. 1790, vol. I, p. 138): "Un David du Guide, semblable à celui que possède le roi de France. They should be compared to judge which is the most beautiful". Adolfo Venturi, La R. Galleria Estense à Modène, Modena, 1882, p. 185 Stephen Pepper, Guido Reni. A complete catalogue of his works with an introductory text, Oxford, 1984, Louvre version p. 23, 216-217, under n° 19 B Corentin Dury (ed.), Dans l'atelier de Guido Reni, Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts d'Orléans, 2024-2025, p. 148 and 162
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